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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OFF SAN SALVADOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: It lay to westward - as of old
Last Line: Late welcomed to a stranger-land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): San Salvador, El Salvador
First Line: It lay to westward - as of old
Last Line: Late welcomed to a stranger-land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): San Salvador, El Salvador
It lay to westward -- as of old,
An emerald bar across the gold
Of sunset -- whence a vision grand
First beckoned to the stranger-land.
And on our deck, uncoffined, lay
A child, whose spirit far away
The wafture of an angel hand
Late welcomed to a stranger-land.
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